For Doug Fieger, the secret of songwriting success was to stay in touch with his inner teenager. That meant raging hormones, unrequited love, and girls, girls, girls. “When The Knack started, I wrote ...

Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti pays tribute to the Knack's hit “My Sharona” by putting on a skinny tie and recreating the song's classic video. Spaghetti and Frank Meyer of the Streetwalkin’ ...

“It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat,” Fieger wrote in the liner notes for the 2002 digital remaster of ...

The Knack guitarist Bert Averre presented a new version of their hit “My Sharona” to address the coronavirus epidemic – after acknowledging that "Bye, Corona" had already been done multiple times. The ...

More than 40 years later, the story of the Knack has all the makings of a cautionary tale. It’s a riches-to-rags narrative, with the band achieving a global mega-hit with the 1979 power pop-anthem “My ...

Once upon a time, 26-year-old Doug Fieger, leader of powerpop band the Knack, became infatuated with a hot 17-year-old girl named Sharona Alperin and wrote a song about her. “My Sharona,” driven by an ...

It’s about damn time! Members of the Knack have reunited to turn their international No. 1 hit “My Sharona” into “Bye, Corona” to promote social distancing. After its release in 1979, “My Sharona” hit ...

Doug Fieger, 57, the leader of the power pop band the Knack who sang on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Feb. 14 at his home in Los Angeles. He had cancer. Mr. Fieger, a Detroit area native, formed the ...

The coronavirus crisis has led to countless parodies of The Knack's "My Sharona." By Rania Aniftos The coronavirus crisis has led to countless parodies of The Knack‘s “My Sharona,” and fans have been ...

If you want to know how the celebrity real estate market is faring in this Great Recession, who better to ask than a mini-celebrity herself? Sharona Alperin was only 17 when The Knack's song "My ...

It was a bellwether moment in pop-culture history, but like most such moments, nobody realized it at the time. Thirty-five years ago this week, My Sharona, a hard-driving pop-punk tune by Los Angeles ...

R.E.M.’s “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” has seen a resurgence in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s not the only song that’s been getting more plays ...